Just Build, Mate.  (just don't build a hardware Reactor!) - SHR!MP S01E07

20 October 2025

For the second half of the year, SHRMP and I moved into Stone&Chalk, enjoying the laurels of pitching by having a nice Melbourne CBD-based office and some really good company as part of Startmate's Buildmate programme.

Some members of the Internship team also stayed on a bit longer as we worked on building out the prototype plans and the development plan for the first year of operations.

Early Q4, the plans for the first prototype were finished; however, here we seemed to push the limits of the “Build” in Buildmate, as there was not much enthusiasm for us to actually put a tank into at least the basement of the building to truly put “the build” into SHRMP.bio.

So, while the plans were ready, “just” a few minor parts were missing for action: a place that would be suitable to build it, some money and ideally a small team to build it with…

The Buildmate (MEL) crew hard at building. The first plan for the SHRMPlab would have fitted nicely into the basement (mocked-up with the IKEA AR App) - and - of course totally planned - it could also prefectly fit a 20ft Shipping Container…